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On display at V&A South Kensington
British Galleries, Room 125, Edwin and Susan Davies Gallery

Embroidery

1909 (designed), (designed)
Artist/Maker
Lamb, Helen Adelaide (Designer)
Place of origin
Glasgow (designed)

Unbleached plain weave linen panel, embroidered with silk and beads, depicting a girl or woman in a garden.


Object details

Categories
Embroidery
Textiles
Object type
Embroidery
Materials and techniques
Silk embroidery on a plain weave unbleached linen ground with beading
Silk (Textile)
Beads
Linen
Embroidery
Brief description
Embroidered picture, plain weave unbleached linen worked with silk and beads, figure of a girl or woman, designed by Helen Adelaide Lamb at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, in 1909, probably made in the early twentieth century
Physical description
Unbleached plain weave linen panel, embroidered with silk and beads, depicting a girl or woman in a garden.
Dimensions
  • Height: 57cm
  • Width: 33.5cm
Credit line
Purchase funded by Ivor and Sarah Braka
Object history
Helen Adelaide Lamb was born in Prestwick, Scotland, in 1893, and admitted to the Glasgow School of Art at the young age of 15. She later went on to teach art at the St Columba's School, Kilmacolm between 1918 and 1949. She died in Dunblane in 1981 and there is an octagonal room on the ground floor named in recognition of her outstanding artistic contribution to the cathedral.

The piece exhibits characteristic features of the Glasgow Style, such as the natural linen ground and the combination of curved and straight lines.
Bibliographic references
  • Embroidered Panel by Helen A. Lamb The Studio – An Illustrated Magazine of Fine Applied Art, Volume 46, 1909
  • Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion, edited by Lesley Ellis Miller and Ana Cabrera Lafuente with Claire Allen-Johnstone, Thames and Hudson Ltd. in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, 2021, pp. 402-403
  • Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion, edited by Lesley Ellis Miller and Ana Cabrera Lafuente with Claire Allen-Johnstone, Thames and Hudson Ltd. in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, 2021, pp. 402-403
  • Miller, Lesley Ellis, and Ana Cabrera Lafuente, with Claire Allen-Johnstone, eds. Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2021. ISBN 978-0-500-48065-6. This object features in the publication Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion (2021)
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
T.25-2019

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Record createdMarch 11, 2019
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1483226/embroidery-lamb-helen-adelaide/
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